Two weeks ago, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson took to Instagram to officially announce he would be playing the lead role in director Shane Black’s upcoming adaptation of the Doc Savage pulp series from the 1930s. Johnson described the character as “the world’s first superhero.” While there can be some debate …

Rorschach by Dave Gibbons Whenever people talk about the best comics ever made, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons always ends up near the top of the list. Probably the most iconic character in that series was the brutal, trench coated vigilante, Rorschach. Rorschach consistently makes lists of the …

If you’re older than fourteen years old, and you read superhero comic books today it is because of a single comic book from 1961 – even if you’ve never read it. It can be contended that the single most influential superhero comic book of all time is the Flash #123: …

Cover of Nick Fury #6 Comic books and comic art has changed dramatically since their debut in the 1930s. While this modernization occurred gradually over the course of the decades, a single book, Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD, by a single artist, Jim Steranko, did more to shape modern mainstream …